Early Days 1720-1865, Early History of Mississippi Early settlers of Southwestern Mississippi would write back home and would write about the abundance of this new place. One Mississippi immigrant described his new home as “a wide empty country with a soil that yields such noble crops that any man is sure to succeed.” Another new settler wrote to family back in Maryland that “the crops [here] are certain… and abundance spreads the table of the poor man and contentment smiles on every countenance ”. The true first people of Southwestern Mississippi were the Native Americans of the Natchez tribe . The occupation by Europeans of this territory began in the late 1720’s by the Spanish and the French. In 1729, the Natchez revolted
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It might seem rather strange to think of going west was considered the Mississippi Territory . The nation was young and not yet settled west of the Mississippi. So, as an incentive the federal government gave land to those willing to move and resettle. Settlers came to this rich, fertile, untouched land, with weather conditions conducive for two growing seasons, and acres of virgin timbers which were great for home building. Along with their immediate family members, many carried their personal servants and slaves. Two growing seasons created the “profitability of cotton production, which in turn gave rise to the widespread growth of slavery in the Mississippi Territory. Slaves had first been brought into the region during the colonial era, but it was during the territorial period that their population grew in significant numbers. Between 1798 and 1817, the number of slaves in the Mississippi Territory increased from approximately 4,000 to about 70,000. Most slaves were brought in from elsewhere in the South by planters or purchased at several slave …show more content…
He went to Natchez to the “Forks of the Road Market ” to sell land along with some young men and women, “slaves”. Samuel Scott, a young farmer whose family was of some import in Jefferson County, agreed to purchase about 1300 acres of prime farm land along with the slaves from Terry. (Champ Terry ~to~ Samuel Scott 4th November 1840 -- E-178, p. 78, filed at Port Gibson this 13th day of May 1841) This indenture made and entered into the fourth day of November 1840 between Champ Terry of the County of Jefferson, State of Mississippi of the one party and Samuel Scott of the other party… tract of land lying in said county on the waters of the North spring of Coles Creek containing about thirteen hundred acres bounded north by said corner east by lands of N.W. Trimble South and west by lands of Louisa Harper… and a tract known as the “tan yard”… Also, the following Negro slaves, to wit, Philip, Theodore, Armstead, Tom, Jack, Tony…). In this group of young men and women was Delaney Jackson aka Jackson Delaney “Jack”. Delaney and his mother were both born in Maryland and his father a white merchant was from Ireland. Delaney, at the age of 12, came to Mississippi through what was known as the “second middle passage ”. (Philip Ceeny joined the Union Army at Natchez
It might seem rather strange to think of going west was considered the Mississippi Territory . The nation was young and not yet settled west of the Mississippi. So, as an incentive the federal government gave land to those willing to move and resettle. Settlers came to this rich, fertile, untouched land, with weather conditions conducive for two growing seasons, and acres of virgin timbers which were great for home building. Along with their immediate family members, many carried their personal servants and slaves. Two growing seasons created the “profitability of cotton production, which in turn gave rise to the widespread growth of slavery in the Mississippi Territory. Slaves had first been brought into the region during the colonial era, but it was during the territorial period that their population grew in significant numbers. Between 1798 and 1817, the number of slaves in the Mississippi Territory increased from approximately 4,000 to about 70,000. Most slaves were brought in from elsewhere in the South by planters or purchased at several slave …show more content…
He went to Natchez to the “Forks of the Road Market ” to sell land along with some young men and women, “slaves”. Samuel Scott, a young farmer whose family was of some import in Jefferson County, agreed to purchase about 1300 acres of prime farm land along with the slaves from Terry. (Champ Terry ~to~ Samuel Scott 4th November 1840 -- E-178, p. 78, filed at Port Gibson this 13th day of May 1841) This indenture made and entered into the fourth day of November 1840 between Champ Terry of the County of Jefferson, State of Mississippi of the one party and Samuel Scott of the other party… tract of land lying in said county on the waters of the North spring of Coles Creek containing about thirteen hundred acres bounded north by said corner east by lands of N.W. Trimble South and west by lands of Louisa Harper… and a tract known as the “tan yard”… Also, the following Negro slaves, to wit, Philip, Theodore, Armstead, Tom, Jack, Tony…). In this group of young men and women was Delaney Jackson aka Jackson Delaney “Jack”. Delaney and his mother were both born in Maryland and his father a white merchant was from Ireland. Delaney, at the age of 12, came to Mississippi through what was known as the “second middle passage ”. (Philip Ceeny joined the Union Army at Natchez